The Sun. — London, England, 1826-11-17 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS: an Letters from Paris have been received, stating that. " plication has been made by the Government" (orrather Court, for .Goverement he has none), of .Ferdinand, to the French Ministers,!rrequesting assistance" towards, thi suppression, of the new Constitutional system in Portugal, "on the ground that_ such a request, was in complete ac cordance with the conduct pursued by France in regard to Spain in 184 and could sot therefore be eansistently re fused." The French Ministers, nevertheless, we are told, have actually ventured to send back a flat refusal: We have , no doubt that such reqiiests as are here alluded to have been made by Ferdinand to the French Government., not recently alone, or in a single instance, but every day and hour-since the first news arrived at Madrid of the pro mulgation of a Portuguese Charter, and since the first alarm was felt that liberty in Portugal might prove contagious else where. The intelligence contained in the Paris letter is therefore of little Moment as a matter of fact; but the argu ment which accompanies thefact may deserve a pass' ng obser vation. It is inferred, that because France invaded Spain to put doWn the Spanish Constitution, cx pars ratiane, she must co-operate with Spain in an attack on Portugal; for extinguishing the constitution of the latter country.— & knocks down B. on pretence that he (B.) was inedi rating a similar favour for him ; and is then advised to knock down C. also, for fear he should, by possibility, help to set B. on his legs again. This may certainly be considered a provident and long-sighted plan of self-de &nee :` the only objection which occurs to us is, that it Wouldltistify, and indeed require, a precautionary intik tion of knock-down blows upon. all • the letters of the alphabet, in virtue of the same obvious principle, that every Government may destroy every other Govern ment, by which it apprehends that danger, though not positively intended, muy spring eventually to its own interests or institutions. France excused her atrocious conduct to Spain on sundry grounds, viz. that the frontier provinces of the Peninsula were desolated by a civil war, the consequences of which were unsafe for, and injurious to, the adjueent provinces of his most Christian Majesty; t h at t h e kingdom of Spain was in the hmids of a most rebellious faction; which usurped the prerogatives of the Sovereign against his will; end coerced his person; that Soitereign being a near, relative of Louis XVIII., and therefore entitled, by the ties of blood and honolir, to his protection: • It was said, moreover, that no freedom could be legitimate but that which was a voluntary gift from a despotic Monarch, nor any neighbouring State secure from the infection of such outrageous and ungodly examples, if toleratedon its frontiers. We do not meddle with the justice or common sense, or lawfulness, or bearableness of doctrineslike theabove. It is nothilig to' us at ptesent to what degree they:insulted the natural rights of every Spanish citizen; the genii's of English history, the Royal authority of the House of Brunswick, or the reason and dignity of the whole human race; our business is with the argument of Ferdi nand's Camarillo, how fur the case brought forward by France herself, to palliate her Attack on the Spanish Cones and constitution, can be distorted into even the shadow of '4 pretext for assisting Ferdinand in his _project of hostility against the Government of the Portuguese Regent: Is tin re any civil war in Portugal affecting the peaceful 'com merce of the French provinces, and compelling Charles X.- to inti.nfere for the protection of his own subjects front licentiout military violence None. A' space of between' 400 end MO miles extends between the near est French and the nearest Portuguese village, the interval being occupied by French troops, and millions of legitimate and ultra-loyal Spaniards (as they assure us.) le Portugal again in the hands of. rebele ? )3y, whom is its Government administered '? By whom was its con stitution framed, bestowed, promulgated, and established ? By whom was the Regent appointed'? Why, by Pedro, eldest born, arid unquestioned heir of John VI., the kite Monarch ; and is he (Don Pedro) coerced by his Pwir subjects, or have his prerogatives and attributes been usurped by any of them ? No, surely. This lawful heir tinu f proprietor of the Crown of Portugal took his text from iYw ylry,,;primer of legitimacy. He volunteered t h e c h att erraich he gave to people, unseneited by any of them, 6,00 miles from Portugal : in the pleni tude and wentorinese pf absolute power, this true legiti mate, invoking to his 11.41 the sacred and mighty mo narchical principle, the Owes: anchor of the Holy Alliance, affirmed lila own autocracy in t,; , e act by which lie' sacri tieed it for ever, and with studied end punctilious adhe rence to the most extravagant dogma; of the despotic school, he commanded his people to be free s And challenged the other. absolute Kings of burope to impugn 0 liberty so orthodox in all its' relations. Is this, in the last place,--this, the free-gift offering of a despot,--that species of liberty which aims at the existence of other states ? If so, the Holy Alliance ere to blame ; for it is they' who have pre scribed and sanctioned it. On no ground, therefore, of identity, or remote resemblance, do these two cases bear to be 'argued in the Manner imputed to the Spanish Government, nor can the Ministers of Charles X. be d a red with ieconsisteney, for having rejected flatly and unequivoCklly the foolish application. There is another c i rcums t a nce, of DO great force, perhaps, in abstract logic, yet of some potency', we should suspect, in practice, to which it 'may not be tiOlair to attribute a share at least of the repugnance evinced by .the French Government to eloSe with the wild schemes of Camarillo. IL was an - nounced many weeks ago that France hiO bound herself by a distinct engagement with this country, to W.c?cet and hold inviolable the Portuguese Constitution, if England wo.nid equally pledge herself to leave the no-constitution of !Tr dinand and 'his monks unmolested. The good faith of Charles was, therefore, involved in the decision 'which his Ministers bad "to form: Finally, it has been declared from the Throne at Lisbon, that England will support the ex isting GeVerninent cif Partiigal—a hint which, doubtless, would have its jest weight at the Tuileries, had the ques tio (which we are far from asserting) lunig for a moment in ti4e'bulance.—lbid, t o ; Moauv MOKET.-4 new stimulus was given yes terday to , .the. value of stock of every description, both by large purclus.'", and by playing on the ,fears of the specu lators, for a fin. 1. Consols for the Account were done at sq, and left at buyers. There was no political in telligence o f any ki.KI by- which the prices could be Mu enced : 'the rise Is Milli; merely to the general persuasion that there must be ail improvement; each individual pur chases because lie Sees MS lieitchbour doing the same, and exercises no reflicition whatever.- This is thus usual course of speetilationiviit the moo ey-market; 'tad till some 'crisis in public aflairs,,oecurs, no check is en , - gienced. All these are.eager• to sell at the same time ; a c.anie takes place, and prices tall as much below, as' they had risen above, their natural level. N otwitustanumg the seven: suffering that, has been lately experienced, so tattle are speculators disposed to take warning by the past, that' it will be matter of wonder rather than otherwise, if the rise 'as it did last year, to a specula of stock does not l e n d , tion in commodities. Most of the Continental funds have felt the - affect of the advance in Commis, to which they generally, acquire it relative value. Danish, Portuguese, Prussian, Russian, and,French stock are all hi g h er . I n Mexican and Colombian bonds, account-day b eing - over , there has been tio new movement. The report of a Pe ruvian loan in Paris, probably from the same cause, dying away, and in all likeli hood will be permitted to rest till the next settling-day. The letter from the Colombian Finance Minister to M. Hutted° has attracted a good deal of, uuderstood that the attention; the more so, as it is generally agents with whom the 350,000/. is said to have be he r y dg en, ed, are so far from admitting the claim that they, on th ii•iefer a counter claim on the Colombian Go that in vern') ea sin m for 'time than .50,0001. Thus it. woul d a pp ear, f the - ple Motter of account, placed under the matiagetnent Colombian Envoy, there is a difference of 400,0001. It is to be lived that M. Hurtudo would favour the creditors of the 'Republic here with a copy of the answer lia has for- Nvarded to M. Castillo, the Finance Minister, that they may not have to Wit for the requisite information until his letter has travelled to Pogota and: back. This is a public Asfficir of the greatest import, nce to hundreds in this coun ary, and an explanation satinet be withheld consistently With the maintenance of a high character for honour and integrity. Greek stoolc, adyaneed about, one per cent. yes terday near the close a business. A letter from Calcutta, of the 15th of Juneonentioris some curious particulars of the etVect of the panic there, produced by the re-action of the commercial crisis in this country. The greater part of the' mercantile houses had largely entered into subserip tions for the Company's 5 per cent. loan, then in progress, expecting in the usual manner, as' soon as the list was filled, to sell the scrip at a profit. As the list, howeVer, did not fill, the books were kept open, and the scrip con sequently was unsaleable. When the pressure, for mosey, brought on by the news from England, began, they were deprived, for the time, of the power of paying up their in- . stalments. On a representation being made to the Go vernment of their situation, the books of subscription to the loan were closed, the , future instalments were provided for, and money advanced on the scrip they bad taken at 8 per cent. interest. This timely aid enabled them to de vote all their resources to trading affairs, and confidence was soon,pretty generally restored. The exportation of raw cotton and cotton twist is going on at as great an ex tent as ever. The following is the account of the exporta tion of cotton twist from the ports of London, 'Liverpool, and Hull, for the week ending the 14th inst.:— . _ Loudon Liverpool 69,340 1,454,652 1,677,133 lb. There was exported from the port of London 4,157, and from Liverpool 330 bags of cotton within the same period. The sales of spice and other articles at the East India House produce rather better prices. —Timex. The French have been alWays distingniihed for 'that happy facility of fancy which dispenses with any attention to facts. Whatever changes of political system this lively people have experienced, — their intellectual character Pears to have undergone no revolution. They are. still the same' volatile enthusiasts, that must ever have some jdol to dance round one day and discard the next. A few days ago they were all in a state of inconsolable sorrow for the loss of TRIMkil ; they poured forth their effusions of poetry and affliction, in every form of elegy, monody, and monologue, as if Paris had been one vast Parnassus of weeping bards and cypresi-bowers. To-day the departed actor is as much forgotten us if his tomb were among the antiquities. Sir Walter Scott visits 'the desponding city. Instantly a new object of fantastie adulation occurs to them. These ,funeral strains are changed into the soft tones of flattery—all the genius of verse and prose ex hausts itself in finding out " original" compliments for the writer of Romances. 'He is likened to every thing great and splendid that France has produced; but the most co mical of all the amusing instances of ingenuity which the Parisian literati have displayed on this occasion, is that in which it was gravely stated " Sir Walter had the fore head of Homer, and the mouth of Rabelais." The author who made this discovery must have been a profound phy- siognomist. It has hitherto been ainatter of regret, that antiquity had left no likeness of the father of Epic poetry — even his name is to this day a matter of disputa among the learned, and the place of his nativity has never been ascer tained. But we have no doubt that the Frenchman who has hit upon the . very dimensions of his, forehead can set the world right on the other particulars, and remove all obscurity respecting the person and life of the " Great Unknown" of the Eastern world. There is, indeed, a bust which bears the name of Homer; but we, in our simplicity, had always understood this was a " fancy head," invented ages after the writer of the Iliad had ceased to exist. As to the countenance 'of Rabelais, we do know something of that; and the month is as much ._ _ unlike that of the author of Marmion as their talents and dispositions were. .Rabelais attached vice and folly in the high places, 'but especially among, the Clergy of his day, with caustic and unsparing satire. Sir Valtel is a wor shipper of things as they are, and never did he venture to oppose himself to authority tin a recent, instance, where submission would have been a disinterested virtue. Then let us consider. for a moment a fare in which the distinc tive lineament* of limner and Rabelais were blended. What a tragic-comic vount<•ic it must be. Something 'more extraordinary than Gilivray ever designed, or Liston represented. If any of our managers were fortunate enough to get such a head upon his boards, he need insert no other novelty in his bills for the next three months. But we fear nature is not half so inventive as the imagination of a genuine; Frenchman.—Morning,lleraki. We Alluded the other day to the symptoms of a clime lution of 00441 order now manifesting themselves even in the principal toyina pf the manufacturing districts. We then observed, that Pefilern.ent never before asiembled un der circumstances of a more 4 1 1194Ftening nature. The manufacturing population have been so icing state of destitution, that we are only astonished at the patience with which the poor creatures struggle with their .mise, ties—when even the hope of better times must, one should think, have abandoned them. The diminished ability of the manufacturers is felt seriously by the other classes, and more particularly by the farmers, who are suffering very much fromthe fall in the price of stock. Whichever way we turn ourselves, signs of distress and want of eonfidence meet the eye. \ire perceive from a new edition of the Pamphlet of Sir James Graham, which we have just receLved, that the Honourable Baronet, whose estate is in the vicinity of a • manufacturing town, deems the distress of the poor weavetoto have now at tained a height which threatens the security of property. Sir James endeavours to reconcile their peculiarly desti tute condition with his own theory ; and though he allows that a improvements in mathinery may have partly su. peoeded the ,use of manual labour," yet be cYitlently eon ,idere the fate of the weavers as the result rather of changes in the currency., than of the power-loom. Hero we cannot agree ;with him. The condition of the weavers has . no parallel in that pf any of the other industrious classes; during the late " proapprity," as it was called, When combination was the order of 'the day, their wages were positively Wing; and we ate therefore warranted in concluding, that the cance of their distress cannot be of a general nature, but must be lief:tiller to themselves. WC need seek no farther than the power-loom, every improve ment in which necessarily sinks them deeper and deeper in misery. An additional demand for weaving emild not raise their wages; it would only have the effect of in creasing the number of power-looms. But we will allow Sir James Graham to speak for himself , . " it might be enough for me," he Nays (p.. 1 2, new edition) , " to have shown, both front theory and repeated experience., that sudden contractions of th e c u rrenc y , with a fall of wages, and without a diminution (If taxation, hannot fail to produee anarchy and want throughout the working classes of our community ; but jc.annot here refrain front illusstrating this truth by a st . atsment of the pwill condition of the coon weavers in my neighbourl,oo ; bot ln and I have every roman to we,belu°wthn immGlasgow ediate • at the state and - ment is stri ct ly applicable to the same 4,11 ea, iu Lancashire, couquisjug a large portion of the p.44pfaeturing population of Great Britain, " The average nett earnings of the lest we4Ver, in full employ, do not meted six shillings a week : for thje be labours fourteen hours in each day ; and Out of this p itt a nce he pit only . Must supply himself, hiewjfe,, mid children, with feel, fond, and . r.raiment,esi ment . , but he must defray the thn ae al house rent, which, in e s exorbitant. His daily fare is pan f neal pottage and potatoes: or. a his oatmeal he pays, *t this moment, 3a. bd. for the stone of four 'teen pounds ; and for his potatoes, Is, fid. the imperial " The work of the week is generally paid for at its elute : and the little fund of the preceding week's labour is constantly exe - hausted before the fresh return of money on the Saturday. Th credit of the poor man fails always in proportion as his wants are, urgeot; and, unless charity interpose, the interval is feariP l tween the exhaustion and supply of the weekly earnings. I have mum to know, that when ' the handful of meal in the barrel and the little oil in the cruse' have failed, pinching lainger, too often, is endured for.many hours by entire families,. 44 It is vain to add reasoning to facts like these ; they cry aloud, d an- procla i m approaching danger. Patience still endures, becaue. the hope emi lingers that the causes of these evils may pa ss away but if they he inherent in the present imam o f our policy—in:the weight of . our taxation-:--in the enhanced value of our currency—in the axtificial price of articles of first necessity, and in the low rate of woo contrasted with that price, either legislative redress must speedily be granted, or the reign of terror is at hand. " Improvements in machinery may, have partly superseded the rise of, manual labour, and of late may have advanced more rapidly than new ,channels of industry have been discovered for the em- , • Iloyment of a dense population, which the past demand for labour las called into existence. This fatil circumstance, however, can- not be regarded as the sole clause of the evil; it is, indeed, a seri ous aggravation of it, and renders most imperatively necessary the instant adoption of every palliative within our reach for common prudence must teach every man in possession of property, that the existing state of,onr manufacturing poor is quite inconsistent with the stability and security of his own interests. "It is impossible to perpetuate this country any legislative enactment, the tendency of which is to*Uegratie and to impoverish the labouring classel; yet such is the decided effect both of our present Corn, Laws, and of Mr. Peel's Act of 1819, unaccompanied by an adjustMent of contracts, or adequate redUction• of indirect taxes. The paramount duty of every Government is attention to the interests of the community, of which the labourers must form the great majority the right of property itself is instituted for the good, not of the few who possess wealth and honours, but of the many who have them not ; if the Majority be deeply injured, the public peace is in danger ; if the majority want food, private pro perty becomes a nuisance." • • - • trow are we to meet this evil is the question which first suggests itself? More now, particular trades and branches of manufacture have been suddenly destroyed by changes of fashion, as , the buckle-makers for instance. But the suffering class was always comparatively small, so that it could soon be absorbed without difficulty in the other classes. But the • weavers are so numerous as to form . almost a people of themselveS. They cannot be absorbed by other trades till after a long lapse of time. They cannot be removed to our Colonies, from the amount of the charge which the removal would entail on the country. Yet, something must be done, were it only,as Sir Janies Graham observes, to give security to property, for it cannot be sup posed that hundreds of thousands Of human beings can be blotted out of the book at' life without a struggle which would he felt throughout thei whole frame of society. Morning chronicle. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE.—A young woman of respectable ap pearance and good address, drove up, to the Mansion-House in :a hackney-roach, on Monday last, before the, public business com menced, and requested to be allowed to make a communication of great importance to the Lord Mayor. Fogg, the Marshalman, who happened to be in attendance, Was struck with the appearance of the lady, who was dressed in white muslin, very low, as< the milliners call it, had a pearl neck lace round her neck, white, satin shoes, and a large plume of feathers fastened to her head by a gold band. The driver of the hackney-coach was decorated, with white favours, and several per sons gathered about the gates of the Mansion-House, attracted by so extraordinary an exhibition. The Marshalman believed that his applicant was insane, until infOrmed that she ex pected to be united to a gentleman who had paid his addresses to her for some time. He immediately introduced her to Mr. Nobler, without howeier mentioning that gentleman's name to her. Mr. Ilout.r.n, judging fron► her tuldress that the lady was a French woman, addressed her in that language,. .and he was not undeceived until she had concluded her story, which was as follows: About two years ago she became acquainted with a gentleman of respectable connections, lie resided in a house in which she used to give lessons to a young lady in umsie and French, and was extremely attentive to her. She therefore listened to his proposal's, and they associated together as persons destined for one another. On the day before the Lord Mayor's feast,. he told her that be would procure a card for her, and introduce her to his Lordship, with whoM he was on terms of great intimacy, as his intended... He; however, afterwards said,. that he had' failed in his `attempt to obtain the card, but that he was himself to dine with his Lordship, and he would make arrangements for the ceremony, which should he performed in his Lordship's presence. Convinced that this conituunication'wa* a candid one, she consented to • ac -company her lover to the house of his friend, the Lord Mayor, at the time stated. she, however, soon after the appointment, re ceived a message from him, informing her that he would meet her at the Mansion-house, awl requesting that she would appear there ih wedding garments, suitable to her condition, and that she should Out bring any money with her. " I have," said she, " obeyed him in all those particulars; but I have waited in vain for him, and I fear that his object, after was ussthisig, but to hold roe up to ridicule. I have therefore taken the liberty to speak to your Lordship on the subject. When Mr. Hobler told the poor girl that he was no more _ _ - - than the Lord Mayor's' clerk, she was greatly embarrassed. It was, he said, well for her that she had not thrown herself 'way upon so heartless a scoundrel, who deserved to be whipped at the cart's tail. lie, then introduced th 4 poor young woman to the Lord Mayor, in his LOrdship's private, parlour, who expressed his indignation at the cruel trick that had been played off upon the ill-treated girl, and lamented that it was not in his power to interfere: 'The lady, deeply impressed with the compassionate treatment she received from the Lord Mayor, said, she certainly would act as she had been se paternally advised, hilt she departed from his Lordship's presence evidently much wounded in her feelings. GUILDHALL.— Without .I{)nvis, the son of a respectable . butcher in Oxford-market, was brought up for final examination before Sir PrrEn Lanni,: yesterday, charged with' stealing the carcasses o f two pigs. Mr. Wooller attended as solicitor to the prisoner, and upon his approaching the Alderman, Sir 'Peter in quired in what character he appeased there, whether as the friend . of the prisoner, or of Mr. Harmer. Mr.. Wooller replied, he attended as a clerk to Mr. Harmer. Sir Plagß , said, litt9ruies were only allowed to be present' at such examinations as a matter of courtesy, but as Mr. Wooller bad avowed himself to be Mr. Ilarnaer's clerk, he would give him every latitude, even in cross-examining the witnesses, that he could desire.—The prisoner was committed. John Prosser and George Thompson, late prisoners in White cross-street gaol, were charged with assaulting Samuel Wilkins, the clerk to an attorney, who had caused some prisoner; to lee detaimul for his costs, by declining to take ,the proffered security for them. The defendants were ordered,to find bail. Sir PIITIR LAU at>t complained of the general misconduct of the prisoners, and particularly of the practice of eatting—that is, stealing the doilies of new corners, who are unable or unwilling to pay the ward dues. There was poor (laundry (a name well known as connected with one of the bubble companies) who, he said, had had no covering but a rug for the last three months, in conse quence of having been stripped of his apparel by his fellow pri- Boners. Mr. Prosier defended the dues as necessary, because the City allowed nothing towards preserving' cleanliness in the prison. The dues were expended in providing lights, additional firing, saw dust, clean towels, shaving-boxes, glasses, &e. • • Mr. Spencer, the governor, declared that the duel levied were double the amount necessary fur tire purposes. Mr. Aldermau WaiTimati...said, admit was the fact, the Court of Aldermen would take up the subject, and fix the amount to be levied in future. BOW-STREET.....tlenry Mitchell, alias Henry:Harvey, was Yesterday placed at the bar, charged with breaking into the count ing house of Mr. James Roper, coal and corn-merchant, and wharfinger, residing at Brentfiwd. Mr. James Roper being morn, stated, that on Friday the Sd instant, he went to !Anthill, where he dined with a friend, and then returned to Brentford on horseback. He ieached the gate of the wharf, adjoining his premises, at half-past twelve at night, and IV surprised to find the gate ajar, the bolts by which it was secured haring bee n w renc h e d f r om their places. He imme diately proceeded to call the watch, but on searching the box of a watchman at nu great di s t ance , be found hito fast asleep. He called up his nephew, a young lad, an amiatant in his business, a nd they both proceed e d in t h e wharf,. witness holding a bilge stick i n "e"todi anti the watchman's lantern, hi the other. Having examined, all the out-houses, witness went to his counting , house, the door of which was ajar. Iwo fellows kneeling down, On pushing it op en , h e saw b us ily e ngaged in - opening an iron safe. Witness immediately walked up to theM, and held the lan tern close to fitee , ', in order that he mig ht k now them again. Both the felhows wer e in th e act of rising when witness st ru ck one of them It tremendous bl o w on the head, and then retreat e d towards the door,' which h e closed afteehim, desiring the lad, who remained ()upside, to keep it fast. Mr. MiNsiturLasked , the witness why he did not strike the other malt. Mr. Roper replied, th a t b e was apprehensive he had killed the man he struck, and besides he feared that they might both have b a d fire-arms in their p nas e is ien, Perceiving the prisoner forcing his way through a wi n d ow o f t he counting-house, the glass of which he broke, being unable to raise the sash, witness ran to the place to prevent him from escaping, and gave him two or three knocks on the hew with the stick while he' was f 44614 himself through the window. The prisoner however, worked his way through the broken window-frame, and ran towards the canal, close followed by the witness, who lost his stick while Making another' blow at the prisoner. The prisoner finding him self closely pursued, had no other choice than to leap into the canal, which he did, and having swain to the opposite bank, effected his escape,across the country. In the meanwhile the Other fellow forced open the, door of the counting-house, knocked down the lad by whom it was held, and escaped through the town. The robbeis left behind them, in the counting-house, two hats, a broken crow-bar, and a bunch of skeleton keys.— One of the hats was cut across the crown, and bad a' mark of blood on the inside. The prisoner's head exhibited a severe cut, corresponding in every particular with the cut in the hat, and he had on, when taken, a new bat. When called on for his defence, he denied the charge, and accounted for the wound in his head by saying that he had a severe fall a short time ago. Mr. Roper, however, whose evidence was supported by that of the lad, swore positively that the prisoner was the man whom he had struck with the stick on the night in question, but the lad was too much alarmed to be able to identify the prisOner. Ledbeater, the officer, since the time he received notice of the circumstances connected with the case, was unremitting in his endeavours to secure the offenders, and he took the prisoner. into his custody in a noted flash-house, where a great number of thieves and prostitutes were merry-waking. The prisoner, a square-built determined-looking fellow, was remanded to Wednesday next. MARY-LA-BONNE.---Yesterday, Mr. Hatt, the fither o f _ . • the two children who were brought to this Office on Friday last', attended before the Magistrates for the purpose, as he stated, of contradicting a statement in the Newspapers, 'that he had left his children unprovided for. Mr. Hatt proceeded to state, that a twelvemonth ago he lost his wife, and a short time after her death, he formed an attachment with another female; and when he left town, about five months since, for the Northern Circuit, this lady agreed to take his two daughters to hoard and lodge with her, having previously adopted another of his children.— During his sojourn in Lancashire, he obtained an engagement as Editor of the Bolton Express, which situation he now held, and be had, from time to time, remitted money for his children's maintenance; the last remittance he sent about six weeks back ; be felt the highest respect and affection , for the female alluded to ; and he concluded that his children were provided with every com fort, when, a few days since, he read an account, in a News paper, that his children bad become chargeable to the parish.— ! Within two hours after reading the statement, he'set off for the Metropolis, and be could assure the Magistrates that his children had been sent away by the female entirely through feelings of re venge, she having imagined that he was paying his addresses to another woman. He was ready to take his children from- the workhouse that instant, and he would enter into any arrangement with the parish-officers. The Magistrates expressed themselves perfectly satisfied with Mr. Hatt's explanation, and Mr: Hatt then withdrew, and a short time afterwards returned to inform the Magistrates that an ar rangeinent had taken place, and that his children were to return immediately with him to the country. LAMBETH •STREET.--Hoste-m*stuFACTURID ESQUI.- SIAUX.—Last night, Mrs. Sanger, the helpmate of the dextrous personage of the same name, now in custody at Plymouth, on sus picion of having stolen the two infants, whem be so ingeniously converted into a couple of "genuine Esquimaux, imported by Captain Parry," made her appearance before the Bench, accom panied by a Squire of the body, named Buttress. The Officer who tethered her in, stated her business to be to swear an affidavit; and on Mr. Wyatt's asking its object, she, in a west country accent, announced herself to he the wife of the showman now in custody at Plymouth, for the metamorphosis of two infants supposed to have been stolen from Whitechapel, and to whom he Lad taught a mortal antipathy to cooked meats, some carniverous propensities, and a great taste for train oil. She attended, she said, for the purpose of rebutting that part of the charge which referred to kidnapping, by producing her friend Mr. Buttress to swear that he was present , when she hired the children from their fa ther, a person named Thomas, then living in Slater's-court, Rosemary-lane, to add to her valuable coUectioa of curiosities. Mr. Wsrarr---:.When you were making the bargain, what did you tell their father you wanted them for?—Mrs. Sanger—To exhibit them as foreigners. Mr. WYATT—What, as" Esquimaux?--Mrs. Sanger--:-Yes. Mr. Wvaxe—How long, pray, have you been teaching them to devour raw meat, and evince such ferocity ?—by the account from Plymouth, you have rendered them perfect cannibals?—Mrs. Sanger—We did not teach them at all, Sir; the girl is very art ful, and learned it herself. Mr. Wica.vr—But how did you manage to disguise theim ? ! Mrs: Sariger-,ob, we did as other showfulks du, we stained their skins, and put furs on them, which the sailors brought froM abroad.—Buttress, as a corroborative witness, assured his Wor- ship, that the children were not stolen ;, for he was present when the Showman hired them from their father. He was sure they treated the children well, as the dwarf told him they always be haved kindly towards her, Mr. WYATT—Where is the dwarf ? Is she with you now Alia ! Sanger—She liaa left us, anti gone to a rival eXhibition. Ii answer to some further questions, Mrs. S. said, that the mother of the children, then in the Plymouth workhouse, died two days after they were transferred to then) ; they were then naked and in a wretched state. Since she bad come to town she had been looking tbr their father, but could not find him, and what she then wanted was, to make an affidavit that they had not been stolen, in order that her husband might he liberated from custody. Mr. Wyatt appeared much amused by a detail of the properties of a country exhibition, and having promised, when the affidavit was properly drawn up, to have it taken, Mrs., Sanger made her exit. HATTON-GARDEN.—Yesterday Taplin, a Bath constable, accompanied by one of the officers of the Borough of Southwark, applied to the sitting Magistrate, Mr. Rogers, to take clown a bill which was posted in the outer room, in which a reward was offered for the apprehension of a person accused of swindling va rious tradesmen and others at Bath to a very considerable amount. Mr. Roams; hesitated about permitting the bill to be removed, and said that if the information was correct, it would be improper to take away the description of the person so implicated. The Borough constable explained the circumstances under which the application was made. He said that a person under the name of Mackay, dressed in the style of a gentleman, and having the appearance of a foreigner, had taken in several tradesmen in Bath, and set off for London, by the White Hart coach, on Sun day, October 22. On his arrival,in the metropolis, he was set down in Piccadilly, and took a beekney-coach from thence to the house of a Mr.' Tomlin, in the Borough. One of the ,persons whom he had sn defrauded, Mr. Payne, of the firm of Payne and Turner, goldsmiths, Union -street, Bath, having received in formation to the above effect, despatched Taplin, the constable, to London, with instructions to take such further steps as might lead to Mackay's apprehension. ' In London, Taplin ascertained that the man whom he was in pursuit'of, had passed by the name of Gray ; and in order to effect the caption, a number of posting bills had been sent round to the different public offices, describ ing the person of the accused, who it was understood had for merly resided at Poplar ; and in consequence of which a geutleman of the name of Gray was taken into custody ; but on being examined before the magistrate' of Union-hall, he was exonerated from the charge on the most satisfactory testimony in his favour, though the description answered in every reepet. • This gentleman natu rally felt indignant at being thus brought before the public, and threatened to bring an action against Mr. Payne for false impri sonment, but eventually consented to alter his determination, on the provision that the placard pointing him out as the swindler should be immediately taken down, and that every other possible means should be used to clear his character from the imputation. Mr, Rooras—Then, if I understand right, the original charge remains against Mackay, anti you wish to take away that part of the placard which reflects upon the character of the ot her persons. what that part i r ni eg rt ul u r f ed th . e bill, The hir. c u ti o n a lit :R b i l e acquiesced t n a s t h p e r e r c e is m e l o y o w t and it was accordingly taken down: , • Mary Jones and Mary W il liams, two elderly Welsh ladies, h p * lu pe " ; on of wor wor ship, diffe r entekic remarkable for their constant atlenal i n n ee _ o f Davis, a constable, who re ship, were brought up in cust ody from this office, for nicking an cognized them as old ammaintence* Sun day evening last. whootihnersh:r way is a female Barrington, had Welsh Chapel, some time back. MiS. old lady's pocket at the had some recollectio n of Roams Raid, lie . the circumstance. been committed j w o i n tl e i s iwo Jones as an ex there was scarcel ceedingly notorious thief; _ y place of worship not in London at which she did exercise her calling, and that under Several of the o ffi cers described the prisoner J the mask of the greatest sanctity. Aliraie r c .iones protested that it Was a sin a n d a s h ame so to ma lignbaracter whatever she might ha ve b een before i when ill-advised, she wit 4 now completely reform e d .; and as to her fe l 7 low-prisoner, she was a total stranger to her, and, she was sure, eq ually innocent. Mr. Haulms, however, thought that the degree of innocence was tolerably fairly . balanced ; they should, 'therefore, have equal merit ; it would, indeed, be a pity to separate theM. fie there fore ordered them to keep each other company at the tread-mill for thist months. MR. HATT. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Str,—ln justice to a much injured individual, I do trust that you will have the candour to insert the following statement in contradiction to a most groundless report, which appeared in your paper of •Saturday last, under the head of Marylehone Police report." • I have had, Sir, like many others, my quantum of misfor tunes, and this fatal November twelvemonths, it pleased Almighty God to take from me my ever dear Mary, whose bosom was fraught with every goodness, virtue, and t r uth, " to another and a better world," after only two days ill ness, in the 36th year of her age, leaving me with six children, without a single relation in the world to protect or shelter one of them. My wreck of mind was conse quently great, and I struggled against the iron hand of fate, and paid every charge upon me with the exception of a few pounds, attending the laying her cold remains in the dust, through ' the kind assistance of Mr. Baron liallack, Judges Bailey, Park, and tiaselee, and N. C. Tindal,Eq,, M.P., 8 4 e.- It is known to many that I generally go the Northern Circuit twice in every year. As usual, I went the ; and reported for several town and provincial journals, and from my attention was pressed to take the editorsh i P , one of the northern papers. I did so, and that was the reason 1 did not reach London before the date of this letter. Before I left London, I had formed a friendship with a lady, as I thought, of most respectable character, nor have I any reason at the present moment to alter my °Pin' 9n; and it is only doing her justice to say that, whilst I vs in London, she acted as a friend to me anti mine. 81. het' own desire I entrusted to her care, the protection o f my yoongest child (a boy), which she wished, she said, to take . entirely off my hands. My two daughters, the subjects of the paragraph in question, she placed in Ken tish-town, under the care of a person, where she se nt them a bed,- &c. took the ring belonging to my poor wife: and exchanged with me her own, and vow ed e ternal friendship to me and mine. I felt happy , and took . departure for the country. After the assizes were over at York, and pre vious to my going to Lancaster, I wandered among the roulantic, sre nary of Windermere, and feasted my e 755 wi ties of nature. These were my poetical eh's' uri r ? my absence I wrote several letters, and received " ft "' and within the last six weeks sent 61. for ray daughte.rsi: am! 30s. pocket money for my boys, receipts a' w i le much, file money I can prove to have been given. So for their not having: heard from. me during four or five. months. The moment I heard of the paragraph in your Pa . P er left the north, and arrived in London only last night in the most painful anxiety. be wig the net . iu- Now, Sir, I will tell you at once what gave rise to t proceedings against me. The lady above alluded to,heare like many other false reports, that I was re-married-- hence, the revenge she took to get my - own mother, 11 , 1 n sorry to say, to join her, although the latter alleges thsti n d e only applied to the Magistrates to get their Clothes, that all the rest was planned by the other to bring tile t d i London. lam brought, but the end as regards h e rself never be answered. On Wednesday evening last, faithful friend. left the child she solicited, and Iny too daughters which she had taken from the nurse, ill t l streets of London, unhoused and unprotected; but, ill God, they are safe, and last night I had the hapfin" 6 „,., r clasp them to my agonizing bosom .. I am, sir , l" . afflicted and much injured servant, T r RICHARD 11 A • N. 8.—1 write this in great haste, as I want to best t he pi , office to see the Magistrates before they depart. Thursday, Nov. 16.. THE MARKETS• SOUTHALL MARKET -4'4oc 15 ' ,a„ Shes? This day's market having exhibited a very large ,O PI, 7 , 1 and Beasts—the latter more than 800 strong, an_d ! z i . ,.. in r i ena .j number of Calves and Pigs, eac h k i w i of otel o i t . ` 81 1; to s ink very dull sale, at the following pries* Per atone the offish ts. 2d. to ss. SLIM. to 4s. Bd. j Veal .& 0 Atut glutton 3 6 4 6 port •.." - s" . "7:0; it , 41 1 The foregoi nsng quotatio are, eet and Pal , s e n night• 7,40 ton and Veal 2d. per stone beneath those of th is t yitt e n, left the of many Beasts, and a conaid era bl e manner unsold. Beet Mutton 3s L . Z BI. V.ES to 55 14 . OtAl.itKEr.-------*"*Nuv. 14. ♦ °d is 4 8 6 ( Vest.. -"'"ici but. llo The supply was great, and the trade with every eeedingly prime Beasts, which sold at high prices, len' lIAILSHAM MARKET.. --Nov. 15. A. .„ y, J 3s. 8,1. to sa• I Veal •- 0 ~, • "^ York .• 3 8 4 de. v A large supply a nd a very dull tra Reef.... Mutton MANCHESTER CORN r.e MARKE'r.—Nov.II. . * i i , The Cern trade, in this and the adjacent markets, co n t " n lor a very lan g uid state, owing, it is presumed, to the dtP — very of trade iu general in this populous manufacturing distr ict ' ~,bieh little has been done-during the week, or on!Clulage: tA)-drititooens was thinly attended, anti on which no transidtion"' o de rSe have taken place. Wheat is dull of sale at our curreaeY; fro , the not in that request which might have been anticipaso I:ifter London reports. Beans continue scarce, and are Is. 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MANCHESTER POTATOE tlAnt'";;:fc` sr. spd as.r Potatoes. Ce.. is., ftd. per 10139 ar ler Carrots, 1 Is., 124., and Its. Ort. per load of so d es. tid. end 9s. per load of 16 pecks ; Onions, 130 * `""'" lii I, N MARK EZ--N"' , Mute Cop "Pas a 44)• "' ' '7O 00 ---- $0 g) 100 ""Sia ig W ll e ft from g io If It ga MANCHESTER NEW At per Ib. sin' 3,435 Sheep 4d. to rd. ti 32 Cattle 51 score. MANCII4IITEIi VAIL NO. - A 'fbrostle 12 to 12} • 20--1.11 I 19 20 Mule copTwiiti 12i 19e for warp 151 - 50--.. 171 19 00 41 ' 22 1 70-.24 47 24 31 ''l lle!fsliell°9l!---.'—' BIRTH.' ' . ' ~,' o rkt °I. Ou title Ilth root ., in CAWDWIII 1 -teTlKet, ROVII' Lily a Jaunts Paterson, Esq., or & "n• NIABIt111). A Lora C re ' This morning, at Kirnptott, by the Right Revee). , Arteli deriek Beauelerk, Mr. Thomas Wilkins, of the VellasTughter Hotel, St. Albans, to 3iiss Mary Anne Bruton, *Wri t '' of the late Mr. Edward Bruton, of Terrence, }let'', It o O r Yesterday, at-St. George's, Hanover-square, by t he t DA' lip Douglas, LientoZolonel James Tod, of the tion.,./: teloclo Coutpany's service , to Julia, third (laughter of Dr. C I of New Bridge -street. --" a i ngw" On the 10th inst., at Islington,DlE Elizabeth, the 00 1 Y "* of Mr. J. M. French. Whi ll6 " On the 16th inst., Susannah, dui wife of Mr. Jano s j. i . s gs. of Ashby-street, St. John street-read, in the 41st yesr of ", e hir ies On the 14th inst., after a long illness, aged 41 of 1 ,; 0 0. J. Phillips, eldest son of C. 11. Phillips, Esq., of I lij i street, Piccadilly. Osfor"' On the 9th inst., at tbe Rectory !louse, Islip, ots r , ife leiy Susanna, the wife of the very Reverend the Dean of " ster, aged 71. 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